"Because, I could help free you."
Goddess Kali's gaze wavered for a moment before returning with double the intensity, and then dropping back down to half of the original intensity. Clearly undecided on how she should feel about me.
"And how will you do that?"
I shrugged, "You tell me. If it is still that strangling thing, then I could potentially help if it is either on non-human and is hostile to humans, such as some SCPs, or deathrow or life sentence criminals."
I may seem altruistic here, but if I was offered a choice between my own death or containment at the hands of the SCP foundation after they figured out what I said was a bluff, or one million human lives I would choose the latter in an instant.
Its just I would prefer to do it this way rather than the other.
"Oh, and if you could explain why the strangling thing was needed in the first place, that would be nice." I supplied additionally. To which the Goddess Kali took a breath.
"The reason why I specifically needed strangulations to feed my escape is because, as the Goddess of Time, Death, and Destruction any death or destruction that happens in a prolonged way, such as strangulation, feeds my power. It feeds my power especially so if it is done in my name. Otherwise it is proportionately little," The Goddess Kali explained.
"So, basically, war would feed your power, just not a lot?" I asked. "Only if it was done in my name, as I am not a God of War. Otherwise the destruction domain would be even more powerful than it is compared to war."
That made sense, otherwise Kali would be out of here by now.
"So, what do you need me to do for you to be free? Oh, and I'm not doing this for free. I need a backer for when the foundation finds out I fibbed." I presented the bargain.
And the her being my backer wasn't the only thing I would gain, her presuable magic affinity towards time, death, and destruction would be gained by me if I spent 30 minutes or more here.
And the Goddess Kali didn't even need to consider this, it was too good of a deal for her. And it was her only hope. Perhaps she could injure me in someway here, but then she would be trapped for who knows how long.
Not letting my mouth shut for a moment, I continued. "I would need some kind of magic pact for that, however. But in the mean time I could contribute to your freedom, but not finish it fully until I gain the ability to make them. Assuming you can't make them yourself." I paused, waiting for Goddess Kali's response.
"I can't, I'm not a god of contracts or anything similar, nor will the many binding methods of Hinduism work here and now. And how are you so sure you can eventually make them?" She confirmed and questioned at the same time.
"I'm sure I can eventually make them. Just right now I can't because I don't have an affinity towards contract magic. In the near future, however, I could easily gain it." I said, not exposing too much but not telling too little.
The Goddess Kali looked at me for a few long moments, as if in consideration if the opportunity in front of her, that she could not come by again, was truly worth it.
"Then I shall accept our current terms. Do you have any questions ?" Goddess Kali said, pondering something while talking.
"What method should I use to free you?" I questioned. "Oh, also why and how did I get here?"
"To increase my power, just simply destroy or kill things over a long period of time in my name. And you got here simply because you clashed your mental energy against my power. Resulting in your mind coming here." She said.
I mean… what did I expect from putting all of my mental energy into one attack? For my mind to not follow it? Oh well, its not like it didn't turn out to be beneficial. Although I would have to be careful about this in the future.
"If thats all, then I shall be relinquishing you from my realm." Goddess Kali said, much to my chagrin.
It had only been around 5ish minutes, this wasn't some anime where an hour passed in between three lines of dialogue. I still needed 25 minutes more to copy whatever god tier magic she had.
"No! Uhm… How has…" I voiced passionately. My voice trailing off.
"Yes?" Goddess Kali asked confusedly.
My mind moved as fast as it could, eventually blurting out something that I was both genuinely curious about and something that would keep her talking.
"Since I've decided to help you become free again, you should now be able to tell me about yourself." I said, spewing my words out faster than I could think.
Looking back at the frozen expression of Goddess Kali, I wondered if she could attempt to smite me like before. I had specifically avoided it this conversation and now with my deal with her, it would be stupid of her to attempt it again.
"..what exactly would you like to know about me?" The Goddess Kali said after some consideration. "Anything is fine with me, but I'm most interested in whether or not the Hindu mythology is real and if other mythos are real too." I replied, thinking about what would likely take the longest to explain and was also interesting.
"Hm.. well yes, but no. But yes, but no."
"The Hindu myths, and all others for that matter, are not real. But they are real for the gods. Although we don't know exactly our origin, to our knowledge, we do know all gods were made." Goddess Kali explained. "Also, not all of the gods are real, such as ones with fewer than perhaps… 50,000 believers. And, even in the major pantheons, a lot of the minor gods do not exist."
Now, the question was, whether or not it was the God SCP, whose number I still don't remember, or if even he was made.
Also, this felt like this world was deviating from the whole SCP thing, wasn't it?
I was supposed to be studying a chair that gives people who sit on it chicken pox in the pattern of a map that led to a treasure on Venus, which was actually a fragment of Atlantis. On Venus. The Atlantians having moved there to escape the same chicken pox that led the foundation there. Resulting in the deaths of the few Atlantains remaining.
Not this shit.
"Really? Then did any of the pantheons interact?" I asked, hiding my desperation. That was way too short of an explanation. Barely 35 seconds.
I could feel the countdown.
"Of course we did, its just that some were more isolated from others. Such as the Norse not interacting with us, but interacting with most of Europe. I believe this phenomenon was called… Heritucle Study? At least thats what the scholars of my time called it." She explained in record time. Barely another 20 seconds.
"…" Shit. This was really impossible wasn't it? She had been alone and chained for however long, of course she would be unsociable. Oh well, I could always try agai-
"Uhm- well thats- Thats what scholars of my time called it. Does your time call it something else?" The Goddess Kali said, profoundly at that.
Thats right, she has been trapped here for however long, she would become unsociable because of it. But not because she is trying to return to being imprisoned. But because she would have forgotten how to make small talk.
"I believe they call it comparative mythology. Although I'm not sure as many things change often in the modern era." I said carefully, leaving a dangling thread for Goddess Kali to continue the conversation with.
Even if she was a God, that didn't mean she had no desire to socialize. Even massive introverts such as I had the desire to socialize, even if we regretted it mid way through most of the time.
And most Gods were undoubtedly extroverts, with the exceptions of the occasional God like Hades. Who merely kidnapped a girl.
"Really? What has changed in the modern era?" The Goddess Kali said cluelessly. As if she didn't have a servant living in said era probably providing her all the information she needed.
"Well, I would have to know the last date you were… free, to tell you about what has changed." I said, hopefully gaining both useful information and increasing more time.
"The last date I was free? Somewhere around 650 years ago." After some consideration, Goddess Kali said this.
Oh boy… where do I even start with this?